Wednesday, September 12, 2012

DECam online in Chile

The Dark Energy Camera, with multiple CCD plates, with 570 megapixels, and an unusual sensitivity to red, achieved first light today, as reported by Astronomy magazine.


The telescope perched atop a Chilean mountain will, for the next five years, survey one-eighth of the sky, or 5,000 square degrees, in colour, to discover and measure 300 million galaxies, 100,000 galaxy clusters, and 4,000 supernovae. Trying to find clues for the acceleration...

2 comments:

Sharmin said...

"We live in interesting times" as Bryon Czarnik wrote about this on the RASC Yahoo group.

bla said...

Indeed. I wonder if these deep mysteries will be solved in our life times...